For nature and people’s Sake … Residents
and BFAR employees joined the planting of 50,000 mangrove propagules in
Apuao Island, Mercedes, CamNorte under the scorching heat of the sun. -
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By ROSALITA B MANLANGIT
DAET, CamNorte: A 30-hectare mangrove rehabilitation
and maintenance project of the CamNorte Water District (CNWD) in Barangay
Manguisoc in Mercedes town was declared mangrove sanctuary by the Sanguniang
Panlalawigan (SP) here recently.
CamNorte SP Resolution No. 357-2012 has adopted and
confirmed the Municipal Ordinance No 187-2012 of Sangguniang Bayan of Mercedes
declaring Sitios Sagkadun and Libis of Barangay Manguisoc, Mercedes, as a
mangrove sanctuary and providing funds thereof for its effective implementation
and reservation and providing penalties for the illegal cutting of mangroves.
General Manager Antonia BF Boma said that the CNWD has
started the 30-hectares mangrove rehabilitation program in 2007 after it was
awarded in July 2006 by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources
(DENR).
The project is one of the CNWD’s continuing
environmental activities wherein they have organized the Kapit Bisig Para sa
Kalikasan (Kabakas) to conduct patrol works in the plantation site.
The Kabakas is the recipient of a livelihood program
called “Lapu-lapu fattening/raising” to provide the members an additional
income while doing work at the plantation area.
The CNWD also tapped Manguisoc Elementary School,
Manguisoc National High School, and other non-government agencies in the
service area in its project implementation.
A total of 66,675 propagules have been planted in 15ha
while the remaining hectares are still to be planted.
With the declaration of CNWD’s mangrove plantation
area as Mangrove Sanctuary, illegal cutting and uprooting of the mangrove
prapagules; illegal use of sakag, biakus, and pangka to catch fish which
destroy the mangroves; the use of the mangrove sanctuary as a picnic ground;
cyanide fishing in the vicinity and any other harmful human activity are now
prohibited by the municipal ordinance.
A corresponding penalty will be imposed to violators
of the said ordinance, she added. –PIA/CamNorte
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